Feature changed by: Robert Davies (robopensuse)
Feature #305168, revision 7
Title: default to relatime
openSUSE-11.1: Rejected by Stanislav Visnovsky
reject date: 2008-09-10 10:20:17
reject reason: This is too late for openSUSE 11.1. Postponing.
Priority
Requester: Mandatory
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Mandatory
Requested by: Michael Meeks (michael_meeks)
Interested: Guy Lunardi (glunardi)
Interested: Jan Kara (jankara)
Interested: Marcus Meissner (msmeissn)
+ Interested: Robert Davies (robopensuse)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
At least for desktops, we should reduce the memory and I/O thrash
caused by atime updates, by using relatime.
Relations:
- bugreport from community (novell/bugzilla/id: 398616)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398616
- Offers 'noatime' when 'relatime' is clearly better
(novell/bugzilla/id: 461829)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461829
+ Discussion:
+ #1: Robert Davies (robopensuse) (2009-01-16 15:52:09)
+ Bug #461829 is not requesting breaking POSIX semantics by default!
+ relatime should replace noatime option in the mount options part of
+ partioner tool, especially now it has been improved to update atime on
+ file access if it's older than 24 hours.
+ Standards are important, and LRU file caches cannot be relied on if
+ noatime usage is common, or if poor backup software touches atimes,
+ when reading files.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305168